Nine year-old Amira Willighagen. She is Dutch/South African and she lives in Germany. She taught herself how to sing opera.
RIP Charlie Pride, 1st Black Country Singer on the Grand Ole Oprey and the Country Music HOF. He really wanted to be a baseball player and spent some years in the minor leagues before giving up and moving to Nashville to start his legendary career. Today he'll be able to "Kiss and Angel Good Morning"!
Those who don't believe in miracles should be forced to watch Amira Willighagen until their eyes bleed.
Before I listened to Lucy Thomas that Scott posted, I always thought that K D Lange at the Closing Ceremony for the Vancouver winter Olympics was the best version of that song I'd ever heard...now I'm not so sure.
A special moment in time. Russia's greatest singer, Dimitri Hvorostovsky, sings "Moscow Nights" in front of the Kremlin Wall in Red Square, Moscow. Watch the faces of the women in the crowd. He died in London at age 55 in 2017, an event that shook the world of opera around the world.
Re: Halleluja. I listened to both. Each affected me in a different way. IMO, each is beautiful in its own way. I may have to listen to each a hundred more times to try to pick a winner.
Just as Dmitri Hvorostovsky was a favorite of Russian women, his partner in Red Square is a great favorite of Russian men. This is Anna Netrebko.